Well... 5 songs... That's kind of problematic since 2015 was actually really good when it came to music.
Major Lazer hit it big with "Lean On" and "Powerful" - the former being the one most streamed song in 2015 on Spotify;
Netsky - even after leaving Hospital Records - is releasing awesome drum and bass hits such as "Rio";
The Weeknd has released
Beauty Behind the Madness - his best work since his mixtape days;
Avicii, with
Stories, has put himself at the very forefront of electronic dance music;
Drake has taken the internet by storm thanks to "Hotline Bling" (
YOU USED TO CALL ME ON MY CELLPHONE...), and his two diss tracks aimed at Meek Mill - "Charged Up" and "Back to Back";
The Prodigy have released
The Day Is My Enemy, easily their best work since their timeless
The Fat of the Land;
The Chemical Brothers, with their
Born in the Echoes, came back after a 5-year absence with true grit;
Disclosure's sophomore effort,
Caracal, improved on the already fantastic debut album
Settle; and
Kendrick Lamar has shown us that hip hop is still very much alive with his masterpiece,
To Pimp a Butterfly; the definitive rockstar of the 90s and beyond,
Marilyn Manson, released another one of his gritty and cynical concept albums,
The Pale Emperor, a marvelous return to the style that made him (in)famous;
Every Open Eye by
CHVRCHES is possibly the most underrated album of this year;
Giorgio Moroder, the king of '80s electronica, returned with
Deja Vu, maintaining his old-school gusto with a distinct modern appeal;
Muse stricken back hard with their beautiful concept album
Drones, which feels like a sonic representation of Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four; obviously, we have to mention
Adele and her tear-jerking "Hello", as well as
Mark Ronson and
Bruno Mars with their aptly titled "Uptown Funk"; heck, even
Justin Bieber of all people has released genuinely good music - his album
Purpose convinced many of his former haters by taking a much darker and melancholic tone than his previous, much fluffier works; my favorite dubstep act,
Nero, released
Between II Worlds, expanding on their genre-busting formula that they already tested with great success on
Welcome Reality; same thing goes for
Modestep with
London Road, a brutal follow-up to their already adrenalinic
Evolution Theory; the two kings of modern British metal,
Enter Shikari and
Bring Me The Horizon, released
The Mindsweep and
That's the Spirit, which are both already seen as the diamond tips of their increasingly successful careers;
Celldweller released the 4-part opus
End of an Empire, which, needless to say, is pure awesomeness; and finally,
Coldplay closed the year in style with another one of their
albums poems,
A Head Full of Dreams.
But, were I to choose 5 songs which marked this year, here are my choices. Weren't for this limit, I would have pretty much
flooded this thread with songs.
Wiz Khalifa - "See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth)"
Late spring I went to see I saw
Furious 7 with my mom and dad, but not before watching the other six films of the
Fast & Furious franchise. Me putting this song is pretty much foregone. RIP Paul Walker.
INXS - "Need You Tonight"
At my dad's surprise birthday party which I threw with the help of my mom at a local restaurant, I've had a bit of a crush on a (very sexy) waitress which has the same age as I do. I told her she looks cute, and surprisingly enough she genuinely told that to me as well. For the rest of the party we've ogled one another with loving eyes... And I ended up singing this song to her on the karaoke. Too bad I didn't get under her panties.
Disclosure - "Magnets (ft. Lorde)"
Again with birthday parties, my schoolmates and my teachers threw me a surprise birthday party at school. They went as far to gift me
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. This was one of the songs I've put during the ensuing party.
Mystery Skulls - "Paralyzed"
Earlier in the year I had to be hospitalized for... Uh... Male issues. After all these problems, my mom and dad promised me to buy me
Project CARS on the Xbox One and
Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus on the PS Vita. I got to get the former, but the latter... We forgot. XD
Still, this is a song I associate with both of these games.
Snoop Dogg ft. The Doors - "Riders on the Storm (Fredwreck Remix)"
Need for Speed 2015. Of course.
Still, I wish once again to everybody here a happy, lucky, surprising 2016. Cheers to everybody, 'cuz you guys are awesome.
